DIY
Home Roasting with an Air Popper
JUST SAY NO TO COMMODITY COFFEE
BY SCOTT DAFFORN, LIBERATION ROASTING COMPANY • PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNY MAE HINKLE
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ome roasting is a fun and interesting way to guarantee you have the freshest coffee available. There are a few doit-yourself approaches, but one of the easiest methods requires little more than an air popcorn popper. Despite relatively small roast batches of approximately four ounces, this method yields consistently even roasts.
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To get started you·ll need green coffee beans, an air popper, a colander and a Mason jar (although a sealable plastic sandwich bag will suffice). Green coffee beans are difficult to find locally, but are easy to track down on the Internet. I highly recommend SweetMarias. com, but there are many other options, for example Roastmasters. com and BurmanCoffee.com. Wherever you source your beans, I
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